Window or door screen.



'W. R. LEONARD. WINDOWOR DOOR SCREEN. APPLICATIONJILED MAY 3. ms.

13 9,, Patented June 12, 1917.

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WILLIAM R. LEONARD, or covrneron, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF r0 zrornv HACI-IMEISTEB, or COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

WINDOW 0R DOOR SCREEN.

Application filed. May 3, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. LEONARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Covington, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window. or Door Screens, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to.

the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to window or door and which will naturally guide them to theexit opening of the screen.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the screen that the outer and inner screen members shall be supported in spaced relation to each other and thus render it impossible for the screen members to be forced toward each other thus crushing or mashing the exit passage or trap.

A still further object of the invention is to so construct the screen that the screen members will not project beyond the normal plane of the frame, thus making it possible to handle and pack the screens without danger of deforming or mashing the screen members.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front or outside view of a screen constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is an inside view or a rear elevation; V

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-8 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4: is a section on the line 44 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a perspective detail view of the lower end of the trap screen; and

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the spacing and supporting member 21.

Referring to these drawings, A designates the frame of a door or the frame of a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Serial No. 95,175.

window screen. This frame includes the side rails or bars 10 and the top cross bar 11. This top cross bar 11 and the side bars 10 are rabbeted at 12 for molding extending the length of bars 10 and cross bar 11 on the inside face of the frame. The outside face of the frame is rabbeted as at 1A, except top cross bar 11.

Disposed upon the outside face of the screen frame in the rabbets 14: is a web 15 of screen material such as wire mesh, which extends upward from the lower end of the screen frame nearly to the upper end thereof but terminates short of the cross bar 11. The screen material or web 15 is turned over as at 16, and a metallic binding 17. is applied thereto. Thus there is no obstruction upon the inner face of the web 15 but. there is an obstruction extending across the outer face of the web which will act as an obstacle to insects crawling up the screen on the outside looking for an opening to enter the room.

Disposed within the rabbeted portion 12 at the upper end of the screen on the inside face thereof is a trap screen 18 which extends up into the rabbeted part of cross bar 11 and downward a considerable distance below the upward edge of the screen l5. The lower edge of this trap screen 18 is deflected outward and downward by the inclined portion 23 of the spacing and supporting member 21. This trap screen is held in place by means of stop beads 19 which are nailed or otherwise held in place, and the outer faces of these beads are flush with the inner face of the screen frame. The lower edge of the trap screen is upwardly bent (see Fig. 5) and bound by a U-shaped metallic strip 20 which extends entirely across the opening of the screen and is nailed or otherwise attached at its ends to the side bars 10. In order to support the middle of the trap screen in spaced relation to the screen 15, I provide the supporting member 21'which is disposed midsupporting member 21. The screen 15 is held in place by the stop beads 24 which are disposed in the rabbets 14c and extend over the lateral edges and one end of the screen 15. The inner faces of the side moldings or stop beads are cut away as at 25 to accommodate the ends of the binding strips 17 and 20 as shown most clearly in Fig. 3.

In the practical use of my invention it will be seen that flies climbing up upon the inside of the screen will eventually find themselves between the trap screen 18 and the upper portion of the main screen 15 and the flies will be guided to the exit opening between the upper end of the screen 10 and the frame of the door or Window screen. The trap screen 18 prevents the flies from flying back into the room, and as they cannot fly back into the room and as their tendency is to climb up the screen they will proceed up to the exit opening and fly out that way. The spacing member or members between the trap screen and the main screen 15 will al- \vays hold the screens 15 and 18 in proper relative position thereby making it impossible for them to collapse or get mashed together and thereby also making it possible to handle and pack the screens solidly with out danger of destroying or damaging the screens or mashing the trap screen. Neither the screen 15 nor the screen 18 extends beyond the frame proper or exterior of the outer or inner faces of the screen frame, and therefore the trap screen and the outer screen will not interfere with raising or lowering windows or closing shutters, and furthermore, the trap screen has a very neat appearance and is hardly noticeable. The binding member 17 acts as an obstacle to insects crawling up on the outside looking for an opening into the room. Inasmuch as the trap screen extends across this exit opening, though rearward of it, it will deceive insects flying directly toward the screen and give the impression that there is no exit opening in the screen at all. It will be also seen from the drawings that the molding or beading 19 and 2 1 covers the ends of the binding strip 17 and the ends of the binding strip 20.

Having described the invention, what I claim is:

1. In a screen, a frame including lateral members, a top cross bar, the outer faces of said lateral members being 'abbeted, a screen disposed within said rabbeted portions, beads holding the screen in place and disposed within the plane of the outer face of the frame, the inner corners of the cross bar and of the lateral members being rabbeted, a trap screen having its lateral and upper margins disposed in said rabbets, the lower margin of the trap screen being out wardly inclined, beads or moldings disposed within said rabbeted portions of the screen holding the trap screen in place, and a supporting member disposed midway between the side bars, extending vertically upward and having a flat outer face bearing against the outer screen and being gradually thickened toward its lower end to thereby support the lower edge of the inner screen in angular relation to the main screen, and means for holding the screens to said supporting members.

2. In a screen, a frame defining an opening, a screening member extending across the opening on one side of the frame but terminating short of the upper end of the opening, the upper edge of said screening member being turned outward and downward, a U-shaped metallic strip applied to said downwardly turned edge and extending entirely across the upper end of the screen and attached at its ends to the sides of the frame, and a trap screen disposed on the opposite side of the frame at the upper end thereof extending downward from the upper edge of the frame opening to a point considerably below the upper edge of the outer screen, the lower edge of the trap screen bound by a U-shaped metallic binding member and extending entirely across the screen opening and engaging the side bars of the frame, and a supporting member disposed between the first-named screen and trap screen and supporting the same in spaced relation, the binding strip on the trap screen being attached to the lower end of the supporting member.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

IVILLIAM R. LEONARD.

Witnesses:

ROGER SULLIVAN, JAs. C. BLIOK.

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